Notes

·el sol .... T.G.Rosenmeyer
notes that the typical pastoral landscape is of people ordinarily at
rest. The typical hour is noon, when the sun burns too fiercely for
comfort and nature is in a state of suspension. Otium prevails at
the privileged hour, freedom from being busy [negotium).
T.G.Rosenmeyer, The Green Cabinet. Theocritus and the
European Pastoral Lyric. 1969

·en el silencio These two
lines have been admired for their alliteration.

·somorgujó de nuevo su
cabeza Anne Cruz (p.108) has an interesting commentary on
this unusual word. It reminds one of el somorgujo (a grebe, an
acuatic bird that dives below the surface of the water). But she
also links this natural history association up with the myth of
Hesperia, the nymph with whom Esacus fell in love when he saw her
drying her hair at the river's edge (Ovid,
Metamorphoses). Fleeing from Esacus, she dies when
bitten by a snake (the story reseembles that of Eurydice) and is
transfomed into the grebe. So the association repeats frustrated
love, death on flight from love, and transformation.

y al fondo se dejó calar del
río These lines have also been admired for their
sinuosity, as if the metrical, phonetical and syntactical
composition imitates the sinuous, undulating movement of a body to
the depths of the river.